Cruise ship staff clad in pointed white hoods for an Australian costume party were "snow cones" not the Ku Klux Klan, a company spokesperson said Wednesday. Video of the fancy dress faux pas ...

“It was a tug-of-war event where the crew dress up, and our housekeeping crew decided to dress up as snow cones.” She added that the housekeepers had “no idea” that their costumes could ...

But a spokeswoman for P&O Cruises Australia said the staff did not mean any offence and had dressed up as “snow cones”. A video posted on Facebook by a cruise passenger showed eight people ...